2Mac 10:1 
Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, 
recovered the temple and the city: 
 
2Mac 10:2 
But the altars which the heathen had built in the open 
street, and also the chapels, they pulled down. 
 
2Mac 10:3 
And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and 
striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a 
sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, 
and shewbread. 
 
2Mac 10:4 
When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the 
Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if 
they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten 
them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the 
blasphemous and barbarous nations. 
 
2Mac 10:5 
Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, 
on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and 
twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu. 
 
2Mac 10:6 
And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast 
of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had 
held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the 
mountains and dens like beasts. 
 
2Mac 10:7 
Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms 
also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success 
in cleansing his place. 
 
2Mac 10:8 
They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every 
year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews. 
 
2Mac 10:9 
And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes. 
 
2Mac 10:10 
Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was 
the son of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of 
the wars. 
 
2Mac 10:11 
So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the 
affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of 
Celosyria and Phenice. 
 
2Mac 10:12 
For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do 
justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto 
them, endeavoured to continue peace with them. 
 
2Mac 10:13 
Whereupon being accused of the king's friends before Eupator, 
and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus, 
that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to 
Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable 
place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died. 
 
2Mac 10:14 
But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired 
soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews: 
 
2Mac 10:15 
And therewithall the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands 
the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving 
those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to 
nourish war. 
 
2Mac 10:16 
Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and 
besought God that he would be their helper; and so they ran with 
violence upon the strong holds of the Idumeans, 
 
2Mac 10:17 
And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept 
off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into 
their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand. 
 
2Mac 10:18 
And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, 
were fled together into two very strong castles, having all 
manner of things convenient to sustain the siege, 
 
2Mac 10:19 
Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zaccheus also, and them 
that were with him, who were enough to besiege them, and 
departed himself unto those places which more needed his help. 
 
2Mac 10:20 
Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, 
were persuaded for money through certain of those that were in 
the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some of 
them escape. 
 
2Mac 10:21 
But when it was told Maccabeus what was done, he called the 
governors of the people together, and accused those men, that 
they had sold their brethren for money, and set their enemies 
free to fight against them. 
 
2Mac 10:22 
So he slew those that were found traitors, and immediately 
took the two castles. 
 
2Mac 10:23 
And having good success with his weapons in all things he 
took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty 
thousand. 
 
2Mac 10:24 
Now Timotheus, whom the Jews had overcome before, when he had 
gathered a great multitude of foreign forces, and horses out of 
Asia not a few, came as though he would take Jewry by force of 
arms. 
 
2Mac 10:25 
But when he drew near, they that were with Maccabeus turned 
themselves to pray unto God, and sprinkled earth upon their 
heads, and girded their loins with sackcloth, 
 
2Mac 10:26 
And fell down at the foot of the altar, and besought him to 
be merciful to them, and to be an enemy to their enemies, and an 
adversary to their adversaries, as the law declareth. 
 
2Mac 10:27 
So after the prayer they took their weapons, and went on 
further from the city: and when they drew near to their enemies, 
they kept by themselves. 
 
2Mac 10:28 
Now the sun being newly risen, they joined both together; the 
one part having together with their virtue their refuge also 
unto the Lord for a pledge of their success and victory: the 
other side making their rage leader of their battle 
 
2Mac 10:29 
But when the battle waxed strong, there appeared unto the 
enemies from heaven five comely men upon horses, with bridles of 
gold, and two of them led the Jews, 
 
2Mac 10:30 
And took Maccabeus betwixt them, and covered him on every 
side weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrows and lightnings 
against the enemies: so that being confounded with blindness, 
and full of trouble, they were killed. 
 
2Mac 10:31 
And there were slain of footmen twenty thousand and five 
hundred, and six hundred horsemen. 
 
2Mac 10:32 
As for Timotheus himself, he fled into a very strong hold, 
called Gawra, where Chereas was governor. 
 
2Mac 10:33 
But they that were with Maccabeus laid siege against the 
fortress courageously four days. 
 
2Mac 10:34 
And they that were within, trusting to the strength of the 
place, blasphemed exceedingly, and uttered wicked words. 
 
2Mac 10:35 
Nevertheless upon the fifth day early twenty young men of 
Maccabeus' company, inflamed with anger because of the 
blasphemies, assaulted the wall manly, and with a fierce courage 
killed all that they met withal. 
 
2Mac 10:36 
Others likewise ascending after them, whiles they were busied 
with them that were within, burnt the towers, and kindling fires 
burnt the blasphemers alive; and others broke open the gates, 
and, having received in the rest of the army, took the city, 
 
2Mac 10:37 
And killed Timotheus, that was hid in a certain pit, and 
Chereas his brother, with Apollophanes. 
 
2Mac 10:38 
When this was done, they praised the Lord with psalms and 
thanksgiving, who had done so great things for Israel, and given 
them the victory. 

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